Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-01-24

What more was there to say? What need
was there to say more?
The New York Post points to a growing
evil 10 that city arising from the large
and increasing number of female teach
ers graduated from the normal school
Col. Wentworth HigginsOn, of Massa-
chusetts, taking exception to the COM
plant, the Post affirms that its reference
to surplusage Of female teachers goes
no further than New York city, and ex-
plains that it is due there to the objection
on the part of young people to go into the
country. $40 be able" says the Post,
''to get light work in New \ ork-that is,
work that does not soil the hands or the
clothes-is the dearest wish of hundreds
of thousands of young people of both
sexes all over the country" The
evil, and it is a serious one, is said to be
characteristic of democratic countries,
In Paris, according to the journal
Oticiel, there are 1,506 young men and
ALA young women holding government
certificates as teachers, for whom there is
no prospect Of employment; and the
Temps, commenting on this state Of
affairs, goes directly to the root of the
matter when it says that, primary
schools are intended to open peoples
minds, those OF the working men as we'll
as OF the teachers. They ought not to
disgust the pupils with manual labor, or
trade, or any honorable calling.
The wOTkingman would be a better
worker, better citizen and better man
through his schooling if this, and this
only, be what he aims at. When viii
this idea penetrate the heart OF our demo-
cracy' II would certainly be useful
enterprise to try and spread it.'
At the recent meeting of the tariff re-
formers in New York there was a great
deal said that would help to educate the
people to correct understanding of the
tarfl question if 1t were placed before
them. For instance, Mir. jackson S.
Schultz, in answer to the question,
What makes hard timesW sand: "The
times seem to be prosperous, vet looking
into it it is seen that trade and traffic are
languishing. This is because we have
no foreign market to send our goods TO-
Now, | am in the leather business,
closely allied to the shoe business. and it
is fact that in this country we can
make rs many shoes in six months as
we can sell in year. While travelling
abroad recently | came across in
Switzerland shoe which is made there
for the South American trade. | showed
this shoe to some American manufacture
ere, and they declared that they could
not make the shoe within Ia cents pair
of what the SWISS manufacturer did,
aud the snoe was made as nineteen
twentieths OF those worn in South
America are, OF prunella, on which there
is protective tax OF 40 per cent. in this
country. or prunella factories there a. G
just SIX In this country, and it would
pay the people of this country to buy
those factories and burn them up''
The loss which Mr.. Grubb, editor of the
Timber Gazette, sustained bv the late fire
az Darien has not discouraged him. The
office Of his paper was destroyed, but he
has not lost confidence either in Darien
or his paper His newspaper Office mas
been destroyed by fire Jour times within
the past II years, but ne IS as plucky as
! ever and as hopeful for the future. A
considerable amount OF the material in
his printing Office was saved from the
| flames, though In somewhat damaged
condition. AS soon as the insurance
| companies adjust the loss and a new
| press can be procured-whlch will be
some time during the first week in Feb
ruary-the Gazette will reappear. The
hotel in which Mr.. Grub and his wife
were living was destroyed by the fire
which destroyed the printing Office, and
they are now temporarily sheltered in
the custom house.
The evictons in Ireland seem to have
but two results: Hatred and abuse for